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A girl has to work

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Over the years I've held a variety of jobs, I've been a cashier, a teacher, worked in retail sales, a camp counselor, and even a carnival ride operator. For the last two years however I've been working as a banker. It's funny in this industry the higher up jobs are held by predominantly men but the day to day jobs like mine are mainly women. I work in an office doing a combination of customer service. and loan work. Most of my office is women only 4 men if you include me. The women i work with however i envy. They are all friends, not catty. They have girls nights they get along great and even hang out outside of work. But they see me as one of the guys. I hear them discussing hair, and clothes and shoes and wish i could join in and comment on cute outfits and shoes and the like. I wish i could go out to girls night with them. I also get a chance to see the current fashion trends for women my age and wish i could ask where they got that outfit or those shoes? Etc. Man...

Learning to be a girl through magazines

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In 1998/1999 as i began to prepare myself for living as a woman. To that end i started trying to learn more about women's fashion, makeup etc form girls my age. So i turned to magazines like 17 and Teen Beat and 16. Magazines often read my teen girls (even though i was in my late teens by now.) Seventeen was great for fashion, makeup, hair, and dating tips. The others were more for the cute celebrity guys. One of my first celebrity crushes was Devon Sawa who was often featured in these magazines. I felt more and more like my journey to becoming a woman was underway.